How to Print out Text Messages from Motorola Atrix/Droid/Milestone?

I have a data cable but for some reason am unable to transfer text messages to my computer. I need to print out my text messages for a court case and my Motorola cell phone company is unable to print them out and send them to me. Please help!

Well, certainly we can not transfer text messages from Motorola phone to computer via USB cable bacause the database of texts is saved in the internal flash memory of a phone that we can not extract it from phone directly. To get your text messages exported from cell phone to computer, you have to draw support from third-party software, which is specially designed to access and extract text messages from Android mobile phone.

Are you looking for such kind of tool to help you transfer and print Motorola text messages? To save your time to find a suitable one by trial and error, we kindly suggest you have a try with iPubsoft Android Desktop Manager, which is a trustworthy and easy-to-use Android message transfer tool to access the internal flash memory of your phone and extract the text messages out from your phone. It can save the SMS as printable .txt file on computer so that you can easily print them out. If you are using a Mac OS X, Android Desktop Manager for Mac is rightly made for you.

1-2-3 Steps to Print off Motorola Text Conversations on Computer with Clicks

Preparatory work: Following is the tutorial showing you how to use this software to print out Motorola text messages. First of all, you should download and install the Windows or Mac version of the software according to your own situation. Please note we will set Windows version as an example in the guide below.

Step 1: Connect your Motorola phone to the computer

Launch the installed Android Manager and connect your Motorola mobile phone to the computer via a USB cable. Once the connection is successful, you will get the interface like below. The model, state, system version, storage and more information of your phone will be shown in the main interface.

Note: If it is the first time to run this software, you need to enable USB debugging on your phone. If you did it before, you can skip to the next step.
(1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging".
(2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging".
(3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"﻿.

Once the USB debugging is enabled, click "Allow" on your phone to allow the program super user authorization when an Superuser Request pops up.

Step 2: Preview Text Messages

All files in your Motorola phone will be displayed in clear categories on the top menu. You can select the SMS tab on the left panel. Preview all the SMS messages saved in your Motorola phone on the right window and then click the button of Export.

Step 3: Save Motorola Text Messages to Computer for Printing

A pop-up window of path choosing appears after you click the "Backup" button. Sepecify an output location on your computer to save the exported text messages and click the "OK" button. Then, all the text messages will be automatically transferred to the specific folder and saved as .txt file. Now, you are able to print it out via a connected printer.